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MICHAEL HALPERIN |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc |
Michael Halperin was Story Editor for Universal Television and Executive Story Consultant at 20th Century-Fox and wrote television episodes for long-running, popular TV series. Halperin co-wrote the best-selling award-winning novel for children Jacobs Rescue: A Holocaust Story (Random House) and wrote Black Wheels (San Val) chosen by the National Education Association as one of the best books of 2005-2009. His comedy, Freedom, Texas debuted in Los Angeles with the Celebrity Staged Reading Series, 2009. All Steps Necessary was commissioned and premiered by Inkwell Theater April 2006 in Los Angeles. The Chapman Group Rep. Theatre, North Hollywood, California performed a staged reading of his drama with music Dancing With William Blake in 2006. His one-character play, Mela, was performed in August 2004 in Jerusalem in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Yad Vashem. Halperin wrote and directed his play The Spark of Reason at the Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, California, 2008. His one-act plays Freud at Sinai and Poor Timing have been produced on both the east and west coasts
Plays by Michael Halperin
All Steps Necessary | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Inkwell Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86828 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Inspired by a true story | |||||
Synopsis: | Nazi officials discuss how they can deal with the Jewish problem and eat pastries. | |||||
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Bed and Breakfast | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86829 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A screenwriter and his psychoanalysist wife by a bed and breakfast establishment | |||||
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Chair By The Wall, A | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #87407 | |||
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Genre: | Fifteen minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Based on a short story by Sholem Aleichem | |||||
Synopsis: | Non-identical twins fight over who will take their late father's seat at the synagogue | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Driving James Dean | ||
| 1st Produced: | West Side Jewish Center, Los Angeles | 03 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122677 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Steve is in trouble - he has a big assignment to finish and has writers block. His parents are not happy that he is dating someone called Riley. His brother gloats about his big success. Then Steve meets James Dean | |||||
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Freedom Texas | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | JAC Publishing & Promotions (2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1605130682 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102872 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | voice overs | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| In this comedy, the year is 1953. 18-year-old Los Angeles college student Steve Weisbart drops out of college after hes offered an unlikely job as a disk jockey/announcer at a small town 1000 watt radio station in the Texas Panhandle. This station specializes in broadcasting to passing semis on their way to deliver cattle in Oklahoma, and the town has its share of greed, lust, evangelists, bigotryand some goodness, too. Steve discovers that not all is as it appears in Freedom, Texas, a name thats a clue to the towns past and future. | |||||
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Freud at Sinai | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86830 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Moses has just come down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments when he meets Sigmund Freud | |||||
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Mela | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86831 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A woman recounts how she hid three Jewish children for four and a half years during the Second World War. | |||||
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Poor Timing | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86832 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | God tells Moses that he will die when he gets to the border of the Promised Land. So Moses refuses to go. | |||||
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Spark of Reason | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | JAC Publishing (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1605130415 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86833 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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| In Amsterdam, Holland, 25 year-old Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza battles against the injustice of a so-called republican government that uses fear to destroy civil liberties. His brash speeches and writing raise the fearful specter in his community of the possibility of a new Inquisition. Spinozas angry and jealous sister, Rebekah, eager to inherit their fathers business, uses her brothers passion for social justice and charges him with heresy. The leaders of the community, anxious to avoid the stigma of disloyalty to the state, latch on to her accusation as a tool for ridding themselves of the young troublemaker. Spinoza falls in love with Clara van den Ende, an outspoken, liberated woman who attempts to turn him away from his dogged determination. Failing that, she abandons him to the wrath of his people who wage a devastating battle against Spinoza. His teacher, Saul Levi Morteira, begs him to recant. When the young man refuses, Morteira becomes his chief inquisitor at a trial that will eventually affect society, politics, religion and science. | |||||
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